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The DingoTone Big Sky Drive (“BSD”) pedal is a superbtransparent overdrive that uses vintage specification Germanium to get complex and full overdrive tones. It is one of the most flexible overdrive pedals you will ever use.
The BSD will let your distinct tone come through unharmed – and we give a seven day satisfaction guarantee to prove it!
Keep the Drive control at minimum for a very light overdrive, bring it up through “noon” for some crunchy overdrive that cuts right through, or crank it up to get an edgy, dirty even fuzzy tone. And the tone stack allows you to dial in anything you need.
The BSD is a unique circuit developed by DingoTone. The design is based loosely on our very successful HZD Boost pedal.
The input stage is a high-impedance common-emitter amplifier followed by an opamp booster (the “Drive” control). The booster drives into Germanium clippers through a resistor-capacitor (“RC”) circuit that manages the clipping dynamics. Managing current flows in the circuit is critical to obtain good clipping tone – the “time-constants” in the surrounding RC networks have to be right.
By their very nature, Germanium diodes will give tube-like overdrive – the onset of clipping is mild and “rounded”, just like saturating the output stage of a tube amp. The Germanium diodes in the BSD have been carefully selected to give great tone – a lot of different clipping circuits were explored with our field-test team to find the one that sounded the most transparent.
After clipping, the signal is low-passed to flatten the EQ and it then flows through an opamp active level control circuit. The level control circuit does not add any color and it is functionally similar to the HZD’s “boost” circuit.
The output of the level control circuit feeds the active Baxandall EQ. The EQ is high and low shelving with shelf frequencies selected to be useful to musicians. With this type of EQ it is possible to obtain “mid boost” (reducing the bass), treble boost, and many other tones. The video demo for the HZD shows the basic function for this type of EQ.
A final opamp stage gives another level adjust and provides a low impedance output drive for the pedal.
The tone in the BSD comes primarily from two places in the circuit: - The Germanium clippers… these give a complex and smooth overdrive tone. - The EQ section… this circuit is essentially the same as the EQ on the HZD, which has been described as “milky smooth”.
